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Microsoft 365 Word For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Dan Gookin
February 2025
Beginner
400 pages
8h 54m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 3

Moving Around a Document

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Using the scroll bars

Bullet Moving the insertion pointer

Bullet Getting around with keyboard shortcuts

Bullet Getting lost and getting back

Bullet Using the Go To command

Perhaps your computer is blessed with a humongous monitor. Or maybe the system boasts multiple monitors, arrayed up the wall and higher than your head. I envy you. That’s because it would be easy for you to scan your entire document in Word all at once. Yes, you may need a stepladder to work the program and craft your text, but you could easily avoid the tricks and suggestions offered in this chapter for moving around within a document.

Scroll the Document

It’s ironic that the word scroll is used when referring to an electronic document. The scroll was the first form of portable recorded text, existing long before bound books. On a computer, scrolling is the process by which you view a little bit of a big document in a tiny window.

Working the vertical scroll bar

The document portion of ...

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